Chapter 6: Mortaro's Raid
Mortaro and his Centurions mounted in ready for an attack against the Freedom Fighters and their Earth counterparts.
"It's time we finally time them all on!" laughed Mortaro.
Mortaro led his Centurions where Raiden was having his meeting with his Mobian counterparts when the head Centurion attacked.
"It's Mortaro!" cried Raiden.
Mortaro and his Centurions quickly surrounded both the Earth warriors and the Freedom Fighters.
"Ha, this time I finally got you, there is nowhere to run!" laughed Mortaro, "I'll finish what the others could not!"
The Earth warriors knew what they were dealing with as one Centurion made his move, Jax ended up delivering an uppercut to the Centurion, Sonya ended up doing a few combos toward another one that was making his move. Their Mobian counterparts saw their chance as well and joined in, Mortaro soon faced off with Sonic.
"I am going to make sure you will never see the light of day" laughed Mortaro.
Mortaro charged at the blue hedgehog, but Sonic ended up dodging Mortaro as he literally tried to squash him. He then fired some fireballs from his tail targeting the blue hedgehog, but Sonic was able to dodge them as well. The blue hedgehog then moved around Mortaro and ended up making a fast dash toward him punching Mortaro a bit. The Centurion then picked up the blue hedgehog and then threw him several feet away from him.
"You cannot defeat me" laughed Mortaro.
"Willing to try to take on another challenger?" asked Shadow as he stepped in.
"Always glad to punish more" laughed Mortaro.
Mortaro charged toward Shadow as he tried to knock the black hedgehog down, but Shadow used his chaos control powers and teleported right behind Mortaro and ended up punching the Centurion from behind. The black hedgehog then ended up grabbing Mortaro's own tail.
"Ha, got ya!" laughed Shadow.
Shadow then began to run really fast while holding onto Mortaro's tail, the Centurion tried his best to free himself, but it was no use. Shadow swung Mortaro around, but wasn't able to throw him just made the Centurion a bit dizzy.
"I am going to make you pay for that!" roared Mortaro.
Mortaro charged at the black hedgehog, but Shadow ended up using his chaos control to dodge the Centurion and ended up initiating a combo against Mortaro. Another Centurion rudely ran right into Shadow and pummeled the black hedgehog down. As the fighting intensified between the Freedom Fighters, Earth warriors and the Centurions, Raiden joined into helping the two hedgehogs as he used his torpedo attack at Mortaro.
"So you think you can beat me?" laughed Mortaro.
"Ha, why not try it and see for yourself?" laughed Raiden.
Mortaro charged at Raiden, but the Thunder God ended up teleporting right behind Mortaro and ended up pummeling him with combos. He then made another attempt on Raiden, and yet again Raiden managed to give Mortaro a few more combos. Mortaro would eventually be beaten back with the help of Fujin as he and the other Centurions fled, Raiden was relieved that both the Earth warriors and the Mobians had worked together.
"I think we need to come up with a plan of action if we want to stop Shao Khan" said Raiden.
"And what might that be?" asked Sally.
"First we're going to need to free some of the prisoners he's holding" continued Raiden.
"I can lead that" said Shadow as it fell right into his plans.
"Good, Cyrax along with Sub-Zero will be helping you" continued Raiden, "we should also create a distraction for the Emperor himself, someone who'd be able to boast about challenging him while we secure the Master Chaos Emerald."
"Leave that to me" laughed Sonic.
As the Earth warriors and their Mobian counterparts prepared for the assault, Lien-Da was sadly in shackles in a gulag run by Shang Tsang who was overseeing it with his ally Reiko.
"I do not understand why the Emperor wants us to oversee someone like her" said Shang Tsang.
"She must be an obvious elite member of the Dark Legion, therefore she'd be dangerous if she was led out" continued Reiko.
"Hmm, interesting point" said Shang Tsung.
As the two continued to ensure security for Shao Khan's gulag over the Dark Legion, they were unaware that they were going to be Shadow's first target.